This page was created to keep our family and friends up-to-date on Isabella's battle with brain cancer. She has completed her chemotherapy and physical therapy at NYU Medical Center in New York City. She has also completed her proton radiation treatment at Boston's Mass General Hospital. With her tremendous spirit and courage, along with all of our support, she will ultimately prevail.

About Isabella

From the day she was born, we knew that Isabella was a free-sprited, fun loving kid. She loves to do everything that a kid loves to do: play, sing, and dance. She is also extremely smart. Isabella has an older sister, Annalise, and a younger brother, Nathaniel.

On November 17, 2008, an MRI showed that Isabella had a massive 10 cm tumor in her brain, and it was promptly removed. It was diagnosed as a malignant glioma and underwent chemotherapy to try and remove the remaining cancer cells. She also underwent proton radiation therapy at Boston's Mass General Hospital.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

As expected, and as you can tell from the picture, it's Day +11 and Isabella is starting to feel a lot better. It's been a while since she's felt good enough to smile, so it is definitely a relief to see it. All of her blood counts are good. The only thing we need for her to do is to start eating more and we can then go home. We hope to be able to go home on Friday, or on Saturday at the latest. We've only been here about 3 weeks now, but it has felt like forever and I know Isabella can't wait to get home. By the way, the picture above was taken after she completely destroyed me in Uno, leaving me with 16 cards in my hand!

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